subjection

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As an advocate of equality, moreover, he was an important supporter of women’s rights, and his essay On the Subjection of Women played an influential role in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

When he was a student in Madrid 40 years ago, Mr. Prats Monné read the “The Subjection of Women” by John Stuart Mill and was deeply affected by it.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2017

This longer-term, optimistic perspective has deep roots in economics, and was articulated eloquently in “The Subjection of Women,” John Stuart Mill’s 19th-century essay.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2014

"Subjection to fantasy and infatuation with the idea of power" were elements that Elizabeth Bowen found in the history of her own Irish forebears, but with a difference.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I began to write, weaving the strands I’d found in Hume’s Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill’s The Subjection of Women.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover